Quotes of: Ballet Keyword

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Claiborne Pell

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

Janice Dickinson

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.

Cherie Lunghi

I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

Carine Roitfeld

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

Deborah Bull

I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.

Penelope Cruz

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

Antony Tudor

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

Alice Walker

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

Sutton Foster

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

Ninette de Valois

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

Oksana Baiul

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

Robert Caro

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

Suzanne Farrell

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

Michelle Dockery

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.

Maria Karnilova

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

Miles Teller

'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does.

Robert Gottlieb

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Lynn Swann

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

Andy Rooney

I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

Lily Aldridge

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

Benjamin Millepied